NTPS AS INSTRUMENT IN FP7: an example of European and Ukrainian Technological Platforms "Food for

Life"

Project founded by EU

Joint Support Office (JSO) for Enhancing Ukraine’s Integration into the EU Research Area (ERA)EuropeAID/127891/C/SER/UA

Project is realizing by consortium under ECORYS Company leading

Joint Support Office (JSO) of Integration of Ukraine to the European Research Area (ERA)EuropeAID/127891/C/SER/UA

Ukraine

Nadiya Boyko, prof., seniour thematic expert,

RLP Uzhhorod

National Information Center for

Ukraine-EU S&T cooperation

National Contact Point of Ukraine

What is an ETP?•  As defined in EURAB 04.010-final [January 2004], a European Technology Platform [ETP] is a major, pan-European mission-oriented initiative aimed at strengthening Europe’s capacity to organize and deliver innovation – strengthening the European-wide innovation process. An ETP will bring together relevant stakeholders to identify the innovation challenge, develop the necessary research programme and implement the results. 

As envisaged by the European Commission, the development of ETPs can help to ensure the European investment in R&D rapidly and effectively:

1. delivers benefits to the European citizen,

2. creates competitiveness for European companies,

3. ends the situation in which high EU R&D investment often produces fewer that expected benefits, and

4. helps to give shape to the European Research Area [ERA] on a sector-by-sector basis.

In recent years, more than 25 ETPs have been initiated, covering sectors as diverse as Steel, Sustainable Chemistry, Textile and Clothing, Plants for the Future and Large Wing and Fuselage. A number have relevance to the agro-food chain and these will be clustered to ensure optimal exchange of information and best practice and minimal overlap of activities.

European Technology Platforms (ETPs) are industry-led, public/private partnerships encouraged by the European Commission to drive innovation and unite stakeholder communities in reaching strategic research objectives of key European industry sectors. The main goals of the ETPs are to strengthen the European innovation process, improve knowledge transfer and stimulate European competitiveness across the food chain.

ETP Food for Life was created in 2005 under the auspices of the Confederation of the food and drink Industry of the EU (CIAA), following the principles of the Lisbon Strategy.

Confederation (1) of the Food (associations) and Drink (associations) Industries (4) of the EU

http://etp.ciaa.eu

The European Food and Drink Industry's Vision for 2020:People, Planet, Partnership- Challenges and opportunities for a more competitive industry’

CIAA AISBL Confédération of the Food and Drink Industries in the EU Avenue des Arts, 43 1040 Brussels Belgium

Tel: +32 2 514 11 11 Fax: +32 2 511 29 05   For more information contact Roberta MANCIA, Manager Food Policy, Science and R&D

Congress18 and 19 November

The Square Congress Centre, Brussels

Jesús Serafín Pérez

CIAA President

Food for Life looks forward to an effective dialogue with policymakers at European and national level to ensure that the interests of consumers and other stakeholders are fully addressed in the future The discussion on futures activities focused on:

• ETP involvement in the Lead Market Initiative (LMI) for the food sector. The ETP has responded to the LMI by identifying the healthy foods sector as the sector where the greatest market growth opportunities lie and which reflects the increasing consumer desire for a healthy and varied diet.

• The establishment of two ERA Nets in the food sector, regarding the following thematic areas: Food for Health and Sustainable Food Production

• Development of closer cooperation with other ETPs, and national technology platforms.

• Enhancement of a closed dialogue with national governments, aimed in a consistent alignment of research programmes and those funded through the EU’s Framework Programmes that could encourage public–private partnerships, essential to stimulate innovation. (via the ETP Mirror Group and the Public private partnership/ Joint programming task force)

• Assuring that ETP Food for Life research priorities will be constantly reflected in the calls for proposals under the Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology theme of the Cooperation pillar of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the EU

• Optimising knowledge transfer to industry and maintaining together the widest cross-section of European researchers and other stakeholders to recognise the most important challenges that the sector faces in the next decade or so.

WG activitiesWG activities• SME Task Force Communication WG • Training and Technology Transfer WG• Public Private Partnership WG • Food Quality and Manufacturing WG • Food and Consumers WG• Food Chain Management WG

Key Thrust 1: Improving health, well-being and longevity Key Thrust 2: Building consumer trust in the food chain

Key Thrust 3: Supporting sustainable and ethical production

Introduction & mission of the Mirror group

The ETP Mirror Group was established in June 2008 with eighteen National Food Platforms appointing members at this first meeting. It is the aim to have all Member States represented either as full members or, perhapsinitially, as observers. Members will be in close dialogue with, or will belong to national food research agencies, ministries or equivalent funding bodies.

The Mirror Group has created three Activity Groups to:• develop a strategy and respond to the current FP7 call for Enhanced

cooperation in food and health with a view to strengthening the European Research Area,

• identify overlapping research areas and sharing results, and• prepare an overview of funding opportunities.• The Mirror Group will be a driver for trans- European dialogue between

bodies funding food research, and between these and the ETP to encourage the stakeholders to optimise research funding avoiding duplication and thereby releasing funding for shared strategic goals.

NTPS AS INSTRUMENT IN FP7DIRECT AND INDIRECT METHODS

DG/136/08E Brussels, 18 November 2008

To: Mr Timothy HALL,

DG Research, European Commission,

Square de Meeûs 8

B - 1049 Brussels

Dear Mr Hall,

following our letter of 4th October 2007 the ETP “Food for Life”/CIAA Research Group has prioritised the most urgent goals within the Strategic Research Agenda to be achieved in order to enhance innovation & competitiveness in the European agro-food sector . We have produced the following list of key topics that we really need to see included in the work programme 2010, theme 2 “Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and Biotechnology”: and TOPICS had been proposed: see, please, all original correspondence on CD!!!

History History or or 

how it was?‘Initiative – inductive bodies’

Ukrainian NTP “Food for Life”Ukrainian NTP “Food for Life”

9-10 February, 20062006, Kyiv

Willem Wolters, Netherlands Sergiy Mel’nychuk, Ukraine, “Bio-Cycle” Christian Patermann and Team, FAB, EURoger Fenwick, IFR, UKLes Mykhalchyk, Ivona Vybrans’ka, Bohdan Wolko, Poland: “NuGo”, “PomoCentre” Centre of Excellence, etc.

““People”- contactsPeople”- contacts

CEI Consultation on the European Technology Platform “Food for Life”

Bratislava, 20-21st September , 2006

Background: European Technology Platforms are industry-led, public/private partnerships which aim to unite stakeholder communities in support of a long-term, programme of research, communication, training and knowledge transfer which will stimulate and underpin European innovation

Bratislava, 20-21st September 2006

• Mr. Miroslav Jureňa, Minister of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic• Dr. Jürgen Lucas [European Commission]• European [and Newly Independent State] partners were described by Dr. Dóra

Groó [Hungary]• Dr. András Sebők [Hungary], a Board member of the ETP, described the 

relevance of the platform to industry, researchers, policymakers and consumers across C/E Europe. The ETP must address the aims, aspirations and opportunities of all these stakeholders within countries and across the region 

• Prof. Peter Raspor [Slovenia], there was consideration of national food platforms that had been established in Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland as a direct consequence of the ETP 

• Prof. Roger Fenwick [UK] responded on behalf of the ETP to many of the points made during the meeting. It was true that the ETP was not yet as representative as it should be across the Europe; however, it was committed to improving this situation

• There was a discussion on what were the aims of these platforms and it was agreed that these would depend on the particular circumstances of the countries concerned. It was considered that added value would be achieved by networking these platforms so that experience and best practice could be exchanged.

• This network would also serve to support other countries [such as Ukraine and Romania] that were planning to establish national platforms, and also to facilitate communication [a] between stakeholders at national level, and [b] between the national platforms and the ETP.

• Dr. Kitti Németh would be the link between the national platforms and the ETP and would initially chair this network.

Uzhhorod National University, 29-31 October, 2006

The National Information Point Ukraine-EU S&T Cooperation

Production systems: Agriculture/Animal breading/Fisheries/Aquaculture

Processing

Organoleptic Impact

Health and well-being of consumers

Nutritional value/Digestion /Health impacts

Safe, High-Quality Foods

Storage/Transport/Retail

Bio-Preparation

Environment(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(9)

(8)

Fork to farm

- Food, health

and well being

(1)

PROJECT

Ukrainian Initiative for Development of European Technology Platform

Ukrainian Technology Platform “Safe Food and Healthy Life”

The main problem is that up to now in Ukraine we have not yet developed a well-structured network between all Food Research and Education Institutions, Customer Service Agencies, Agricultural Universities, National Universities, Manufacture Plants, Food Additives Registration Institutions, etc.

We are now at the very beginning of the process to join the EU in this domain. Nowadays, based on the experiences of other EU countries, Ukraine is developing its own “Ukrainian Technology Platform”…

BaSeFood Kick off meeting 1-2-3 June 2009 Istanbul

NETWORK OF NATIONAL PLATFORMS

Norvegia

Svezia

Finlandia

UK

Islanda

Irlanda

Turchia

Russia

Svizzera

Estonia

Lettonia

Danimarca

Israele

Libano

These National Food Platforms, and any other that will be formed These National Food Platforms, and any other that will be formed subsequently are being actively networked so as to exchange subsequently are being actively networked so as to exchange  experience experience and best practice, link individual stakeholder groups and best practice, link individual stakeholder groups  across national across national boundaries and provide support and assistance to boundaries and provide support and assistance to  new and emerging new and emerging platforms. platforms. 

Daniele RossiDaniele Rossi (E-mail:  (E-mail: direzione@federalimentare.it), ), Dr. Andras SebokDr. Andras Sebok (E-mail:  (E-mail: a.sebok@campdenkht.com) and ) and Kitti NemethKitti Nemeth (E-mail: nemeth@vup.sk) are responsible for the  (E-mail: nemeth@vup.sk) are responsible for the 

National Food Platform Network activityNational Food Platform Network activity  

Ministry of Education

and Science

Academy of Science

GovernmentRegional

Administration, etc.

The long way we have to go …

03 December 200703 December 2007Policy makers: Researchers:Policy makers: Researchers:

Thematic Workshop Health – FABHealth – FAB

Moscow, RussiaMoscow, Russia

Next Meeting of National Technology Platforms “Food for Life”, September 14, 2007Stanhope Hotel, Rue du Commerce 9, 1000 Brussels, Belgium - Daniele Rossi, András Sebők

• 23rd of September, 2009 – Meeting in Kiev (Kyiv) – BiLAT project: discussion of Working groups – FAB, HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY – do we need them? How to support the Platforms? 

• FP7 – association of Ukraine to Scientific Space of EU (EC)?

• Legislation of Scientific Parks in Ukraine – from 1st of January, 2010 – commercialization of Science

Ukrainian NTP- preliminary structure: united clusters?Ukrainian NTP- preliminary structure: united clusters?

MINISTRIES

7 - Stakeholders

CUSTOMERS

4 – SMEs (close to 30)

2 – Research Institutes (Academy)  1 – Universities (MESU)

5 - Industrial bodies associations (more than 40 

members)6 – Policy makers 

3 - Ukrainian Farmers Association (24 members)

LessonsLessons• We didn’t really understand well the

subject itself…

• We were wrong with way/strategy from the beginning….

Weak points/wrong thoughts were:

1)UNTP should be created [established] as obligation – “required”

2)We were oriented mostly on external financial support [founds]

3)Structure is primary, the aim is secondary

4) Aim is not correct…

Current situation – again on the Current situation – again on the beginning …beginning …

Uzhhorod National University Uzhhorod, 12, Uzhhorod National University Uzhhorod, 12, May 2010May 2010

ANNOUNCEMENT Thematic workshop Developing of National Technological Platform(s) (NTP(s) in Ukraine: Agro-Food-Platform

Priorities: (1) Knowledge-based Bio-economy (KBBE) with elements of (2) Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies, (3) Environment and (4) Health

See, please, Resolutions on CD

NIPMinistry of Education and Science

Other policy makers

Representatives of1. Academy of Sciences2. Agricultural Academy of Sciences3. Academy of Medical Science

Mr. Dr. András SEBŐK, Hungary Mr. Dr. Federico MORAIS, Spain

Research organizationsUniversities (25%)

Representatives of regional businesses organizations (5%)

SMEs (15%)

Markets’ owners(2%)

Representatives of regional administration (10%)

Press-Conference, Interview, TV discussion (12 different sources)

Representatives of regional public organizations (5%)

Representatives of ICT, organization oriented on legislation procedure (10%)

New sources

New view, new steps to

understanding

JSO-ERAJSO-ERA

See, please, the Resolution

Aim first then way and money; Changing the “customer” behavior1. Effective structure and financial politic 2. Principle of action – all directions, no format, for the result3. Covered/permanent Education – not teaching, not training… rather

growing in right atmosphere by sharing of the all available CONCRETE information and by intensive demonstration

4. Visibility 5. Changing the strategy – orientation/combination on internal

nongovernmental costs; from central – to alternative or rather sum of them

6. Branch Programs in one COMPLETE packet: National Program – innovative – Our “ motherland”

7. Creating real contacts, stop to think how “to create” and wait – act!8. Managing of innovations: ideas and money: planned success9. Instead of/in addition to Centers of excellence – network of existent

Centers10. Regularities, connection, website!11. Developing – move forward

1. Effective structure and financial politic: see Resolution + 7th December meeting, 2010: time to work

2. Principle of action – all directions, multifaceted no format, for the result: just started, bases – agreement of collaboration, old good practice old good practice – without BIG money, be flexible, create new working! centers

3. Covered/permanent Education – not teaching only, not training… rather share available

CONCRETE information and demonstration: sharing translatedsharing translated documents, discs, movies (“Danisco”, IPC) – ETP, general; “salt”-relevant material, innovative biotechnology – all-Ukrainian and all-level distribution.

4. Visibility: publications in public and scientific journals, internal conferences, TV programs

5. Changing the strategy – orientation/combination on internal nongovernmental costs; from

central – to alternative or rather both of them - find the cost – WORK on it!6. Branch Programs in one COMPLETE packet – National Program – innovative – Our “

Motherland” – under realization – the discussion is planned – end of October, 2010

7. Creating real contacts, stop “to think how to create” and to wait: act! – specificand small step, solving the problems – Catalog, SMEs supportive actions, etc.

8. Managing of innovations: ideas and money: planned success – pilot, experimental farms, innovation

9. Instead of/in addition to Centers of excellence – network of existent Centers, main players… stakeholders

10. Regular connection via website – “so-called communicative project”11. Developing – registration, national definition, determination

and sharing the duties and urgent tasks, Internal Cooperation, recognition instead of extreme competitions and luck of information – Research Parks: commercialization of science

TO be constructive To be a REAL PART AND PARTNER of ETP

How is it suppose to look like – new model

Ministries

CUSTOMERS

7 – Other stake holders

4 – SME 2 – Academicals bodies 

1 – Universities

5 – Industry (big and middle enterprises)

6 – Policy makers 

3 – Асоціація українських фермерів і/чи землевласників

Agriculture

Crops Farms

Standards Quality control

Structure – oriented on urgent problems based on unique expertise

UNTPUNTP

Food industry

Agriculture

Ecology

Medicine

Bioengineering

Immune response

Drugs

Farms

Bioeconomy-animalsBioeconomy-

plants

CROP

Recombinative medicine

Water treatment Waste/ utilisation

Probiotics

Functional products

Storage/Processing

Special products

Natural

Micro cloning

New Technologies

Synthetic

Control

Molecular diagnostic

BiotherapyCell technologies

Nanothechnologies

Aeroculture

Aqua culture

Bioprotection

Fisheries

Standards

Virus control

GMO

Pest control

Vaccines

ProbioticsFEED

© National Institute of strategic research, 2010

National Projects for Ukraine

National PROGRAMME (s)

National Implementation Plan (s)ERA-NET or ERA-WIDE

Example of Bio-Cycle: great potential: weak results for Ukraine (see, please, also Bio-Cycle Catalog in CD)

Innovation PROJECT (s)

See, please, also the minutes/annexes of ETP meeting of ETP and NTP in Rimini, Italy, 16 September, 2010 - CD

5-7 December, 2010, Uzhhorod, UkraineWorkshop: Capacity building of innovation potential of Ukrainian SMEs via participation in FP7: Role of Ukrainian Technological Platform “Food for Life”